Lost Faith, Martyrs with an Axe to grind
Star-Lord had set out after the Reds and Blues. He had a feeling that whatever was happening in this place was soon to be revealed when he found his quarry. He hoped he that this mission was close to ending, he needed to get back to the Guardians and get back to 2045, and hopefully from there get to 2016 before Thanos did and killed off the Avengers and try to conquer the universe, after all the Infinity Conflict was a major intergalactic conflict that made sure everything that happened afterwards possible.
'Yo, Star lord you there?" Drax asked over the radio
"Yeah I'm here what's up?" Star lord asked
"I'm not liking the fact we keep seeing the Steel Mercenaries and not getting any closer to them" Drax said
"I know, you know I would feel safer if we had Groot and Rocket with us" Star Lord said
"You know they're in the Lieber System scouting a derelict vessel believing to belonged to The Collector" Drax said
"They get the fun ones" Star Lord chuckled.
"That they do" Drax said before becoming serious "We have to find out why this dickheads want Chorus" Drax said
"It's not like it was a site of Galactic conflict or anything" Star-Lord said shrugging "Anyway I'm about at the refuelling station" Star Lord said getting off his Mongoose
Federal Army of Chorus Outpost 37 'Longbow'
"Understood" Drax said as the leader of the Feds General Donald Doyle came up to him.
"Good Day isn't it Brigadier Douglas?" Doyle asked.
"Yes sir" Drax said looking to his superior
"But something is troubling you isn't it?" Doyle asked
"Its Locus sir, are you sure we still need him now that we have the Reds and Blues?" Drax asked
"Yes, after all they still have Felix on their side" Doyle said
"IU know that sir, but I can take out Felix, and Kimball with a swift slash" Drax said twirling one of his knives out of its sheath
"Understand, that will be a last case scenario, if we don't rescue the other reds and blues, then a final offensive with you killing their leader and mercenary friend will hopefully never happen" Doyle said placing a hand of Drax's shoulder "But I understand your resistance towards him, maybe all you need to do is talk" Doyle said
"Yes sir" Drax grunted.
Chorus Refuelling station nickname Outcast.
"Hello!" Star-Lord asked as he hopped off his ATV and pulled out his guns "Anybody here?" he asked carefully creeping around the station looking for any evidence of life, he came to two sets of Warthog tracks.
"They were here, but where did they go to?" he asked walking into the main station "Mask on!" he said as he activated his mask's visual setting making it seem brighter than it was, Star Lord started to look around for any signs of life.
"Hello?" he shouted out before stumbling upon a corpse "Hm, been here a while; most likely the clerk. So Locus killed the clerk and hid him here meaning that this place has been abandoned for a while" he said looking around "But would Locus have wanted with an old refuelling depot?" Star Lord inquired looking around for anything that could lead back to Locus or why they wanted Chorus. Things were becoming smothered in mud quicker then he could wipe it away. Whoever wanted this planet made sure to keeps his hands out of the conflict a ton.
"Why am I only getting questions instead of answers?" he asked noticing his comlink flashing
"What's up Drax?" he asked.
"Some of those Steel armoured Bastards have shown up!" Drax shouted.
Federal Army of Chorus Outpost 37 'Longbow'
"And we're being hammered over here!" Drax shouted firing back before grabbing a cadet and shoved him down "WATCH OUT!"
"Thgank you Brigadier sir, please tell me help's coming even if it's the rebels sir" the cadet said
"Hold on Drax, I'm coming" Star Lord said "Just hold on"
"Help's coming kiddo, so whatever your name is"
"Evan sir, Evan Mitchell sir"
"Well Evan, hold strong and cling to hope" Drax said firing back
"But sir, I'm pretty sure those mercs are literally scaring the shit out of me" Evan said quivering
"Tel me soldier, have you heard of them? The Guardians of the Galaxy?" Drax asked
"The Guardians of the Galaxy are nothing but a myth sir, I mean a bunch of criminals who banded together to save the galaxy from the Mad Titan, yeah they were a favourite bedtime story for the Army sir" Evan said
"Oh trust they're real" Drax said
"How to you know sir?" Evan asked
"Simple, one of them is on their way so hold on until then" Drax chuckled. 'Locus timed it too perfectly; no way would that mercenary do this kind of shit when Doyle's around'
Suddenly things went quiet
"What's happening?" Evan asked
"I have no idea." Drax growled.
"Well this is a shit storm in a can isn't it?" Star-Lord asked seeing the base under attack, the space pirates were brutally murdering Feds left and right, Star lord saw a young soldier clawing his way towards him
"HELP ME!" she screamed "I DON'T WANT TO DIE!" Star Lord heard this and pulled out his twin elemental guns and whistled gaining the pirates attention
"You're looking a little bit chilly there allow me to warm you up" Star-Lord said blasting out a beam of flames, igniting the solider
"Thank you, whoever you are" she cried hugging his ankle.
"Now as to who I am, I have travelled from the furthest reaches of time and space, I was once a scoundrel who just stole for the thrill but my heart of gold has forced me to be a hero, for I am the Legendary Star-Lord and I'm here to guard the galaxy" Star-Lord said
"Um...no offence but that was kind of chessy" the solider said
"I know" Star-Lord sighed. Suddenly the fighting stopped
"I'm not liking that at all" Star Lord said indicating the young fed to stay down as he stalked off to find out what was going on. He was dreading what was happening, it seem like all of the troopers in the outpost was dead. Star-Lord was nervous at the sight of a lot of corpses.
"What the frack happened here?" Star-Lord asked before he was hauled into a corner by a giant Fed.
"Alright you...Star-Lord" Drax said released his friend
"Drax, what's going on?" Star-Lord asked straighten out his jacket
"Don't know all I know is that thw Reds and Blues are all here" Drax said
"Well that's good?" Star-Lord asked.
"Maybe" Drax said as the pair snuck out of cover and spotted Locus and his faction surrounded them, but what was surprising was who was with them.
"Isn't that you're mercenary?" Drax asked as the steel coloured merc by the reds and blues threw a cube shaped device
"Teleporter Cube" Star Lord said
"EMILY!" Drax shouted as Dr Grey was taken with them "No"
"Easy big guy, now we know that Felix and Locus are working together we can go and save this world" Star-Lord said
"But how Quill?" Drax asked.
"Simple I've been forming something of a plan for a whiel now. It's not finished just yet but when it is the war will be over" Star-Lord said
"I hope so, but in the meantime we should head back to our factions just in case they have some kind of backup plan for this" Drax said
"Good idea, V's probably worried about me" Star Lord said as he walked off to his Mongoose and rode off.
"You knwo it brother, Federation Command this is Brig. Douglas do you read me"
"We hear you Brigadier, what's the situation" command said
"The base has been destroyed and most of the men has been murdered" Drax said
"What it the New Republic?" Command asked
"Negative it was someon else mercenaries by the looks of things" Drax said "I'm going to grab what supplies and survivors I can before heading home, I want to debrief Gen. Doyle myslef" Drax said
"Roger that Command Out"
"Now here comes the tricky part of this operation"
Old hatreds are tired and tame
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Chorus of the Galactic Corps